psychology and health:
Summative Assignment – Deadline Monday 3 February 2014 Notes will be sent by email.
Attached Files:
health_summative_reading_list.docx (18.567 KB)
This summative assignment contributes 50% towards the module.
Word limit 2500 (not including references or appendices)
In your capacity as a health psychologist you have been asked to advise the Department of Health about how to design an effective behaviour change intervention aimed at achieving ONE of the targets listed below. Your 2500 word report should describe the key features of your intervention and critically evaluate the empirical evidence and (where appropriate) theories on which the recommendations are based. Examples of proposed intervention materials can be included in appendices if desired (Note – the word limit does not include appendices or references).
Choose ONE of the following targets for your proposed behaviour change intervention:
Reduce the number of people who smoke
Reduce binge drinking in young people
Reduce the number of people being hurt or killed in road accidents
Reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in young people
Reduce the incidence of skin cancer
Increase the early detection of any single type of cancer – (e.g., skin, breast, testicular, cervical, colorectal cancer)
Encourage people to lose weight through diet and/or exercise
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